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| <tab>Stuart McCormick continued to live near the McCormick woollen mill in the McCormick family house, called //Fasg na Coille //(House in the Trees), formerly the house of Col. Alexander Chisholm. A journalist who found Stuart McCormick there in 1946, living with his elderly mother, thought the Gaelic name of the house “defies pronounciation.” Stuart McCormick’s modest studio was in the house. In 1959, the City of Cornwall commissioned him to produce a painting of the Long Sault Rapids to be presented to Queen Elizabeth when she came to Cornwall to open the St. Lawrence Seaway in June of that year. (//Standard Freeholder// 28 April 1959, //Glengarry News// 30 April 1959) Eventually, he and his brother Frank McCormick sold their property at the old woollen mill (the mill itself was destroyed in a fire in 1949) so that it could be used for the Glengarry Golf Course. Stuart McCormick lived in Alexandria in his later years, and finally, as his health declined, he became a resident at the Maxville Manor, in Maxville. He died at the Hotel Dieu Hospital in Cornwall. He is buried in St. Finnan’s cemetery. The gravestone reads “//McCormick Stuart Glengarry’s Artist 1905-1992” //He never married. | <tab>Stuart McCormick continued to live near the McCormick woollen mill in the McCormick family house, called //Fasg na Coille //(House in the Trees), formerly the house of Col. Alexander Chisholm. A journalist who found Stuart McCormick there in 1946, living with his elderly mother, thought the Gaelic name of the house “defies pronounciation.” Stuart McCormick’s modest studio was in the house. In 1959, the City of Cornwall commissioned him to produce a painting of the Long Sault Rapids to be presented to Queen Elizabeth when she came to Cornwall to open the St. Lawrence Seaway in June of that year. (//Standard Freeholder// 28 April 1959, //Glengarry News// 30 April 1959) Eventually, he and his brother Frank McCormick sold their property at the old woollen mill (the mill itself was destroyed in a fire in 1949) so that it could be used for the Glengarry Golf Course. Stuart McCormick lived in Alexandria in his later years, and finally, as his health declined, he became a resident at the Maxville Manor, in Maxville. He died at the Hotel Dieu Hospital in Cornwall. He is buried in St. Finnan’s cemetery. The gravestone reads “//McCormick Stuart Glengarry’s Artist 1905-1992” //He never married. |
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| <tab>Stuart McCormick was a resident artist in GC at a time when artists were rare indeed in Eastern Ontario, and long before GC got the large artistic and literary community that began to assemble there with the coming in of the city residents in the 1960s. He remained throughout his artistic career in GC an honoured figure there. Few people doubted that his choice of life had been a good one. Clive and Frances Marin have written that “McCormick’s work formed an artistic record of Glengarry landmarks and countryside from the Depression onwards.” (Marin 393) His paintings were sold mostly to local people, and for small sums. He painted mainly in oils. He is remembered as having preferred to paint by a northern light. The colour reproduction of his oil painting of three immigrant ships appears on the cover of //The Lochaber Emigrants to Glengarry//, 1994 (see Archibald McMillan). In 1968, Ness Abraham of Cornwall was reported to own more than 50 of his paintings. The colourful and celebrated Perkins Bull (1870-1948) was an early purchaser of three paintings, and is said to have arrived in Alexandria for this purpose accompanied by his bodyguards. | <tab>Stuart McCormick was a resident artist in GC at a time when artists were rare indeed in Eastern Ontario, and long before GC got the large artistic and literary community that began to assemble there with the coming in of the city residents in the 1960s. He remained throughout his artistic career in GC an honoured figure there. Few people doubted that his choice of life had been a good one. Clive and Frances Marin have written that “McCormick’s work formed an artistic record of Glengarry landmarks and countryside from the Depression onwards.” (Marin 393) His paintings were sold mostly to local people, and for small sums. He painted mainly in oils. He is remembered as having preferred to paint by a northern light. The colour reproduction of his oil painting of three immigrant ships appears on the cover of //The Lochaber Emigrants to Glengarry//, 1994 (see [[mcmillan_archibald|Archibald McMillan]]). In 1968, Ness Abraham of Cornwall was reported to own more than 50 of his paintings. The colourful and celebrated Perkins Bull (1870-1948) was an early purchaser of three paintings, and is said to have arrived in Alexandria for this purpose accompanied by his bodyguards. |
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| <tab>In recent years, when paintings by Stuart McCormick have been offered on auction sales, the advertisements have prominently drawn attention to their presence. Prices have risen steadily. One of his paintings was sold at Williamstown for $2000 in June 1996, while six small paintings of his were sold, again at Williamstown, for a total of $10,000 in Sept. 1996. While concentrating on painting, Stuart McCormick remained loyal to his original interest in the theatre, and for many years he directed stage plays given once or twice a year at Alexander Hall, Alexandria, and he also acted in them. | <tab>In recent years, when paintings by Stuart McCormick have been offered on auction sales, the advertisements have prominently drawn attention to their presence. Prices have risen steadily. One of his paintings was sold at Williamstown for $2000 in June 1996, while six small paintings of his were sold, again at Williamstown, for a total of $10,000 in Sept. 1996. While concentrating on painting, Stuart McCormick remained loyal to his original interest in the theatre, and for many years he directed stage plays given once or twice a year at Alexander Hall, Alexandria, and he also acted in them. |
